Today, a week of elections in the North, will they be held?

Today, an extraordinary election for mayors in northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zubin Potok and Zvecan is expected to be held a week, and early elections for municipalities in Zvecan and Leposaviq. These elections are boycotted by the Serbian List, the main Serb party, which adds questions about whether they can be held. AAK Chairman Ramush Haradinaj has called for the postponement of the elections, while on the other hand, by the ruling LVV party, have claimed they will be held.

On Sunday 23 April, citizens of four municipalities in the north are expected to turn to ballot boxes to elect their chairman, after the latter surrendered in November due to the Targa decision.

The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, at Thursday's session has called for President Osmani and Prime Minister Kurti to postpone elections.

I call on the government, the president, the country's institutions to take the situation seriously in the north and make a decision about this situation. What this decision would be, I believe very much that it would be the postponement of the” elections, Haradinaj has indicated.

However, Parliament Speaker Glauk Konjufa has said that elections in the north have been postponed once and they have received guarantees that will not be postponed.

“We cannot be conditioned by Vuciqi, from Belgrade, from Serbia, to decide when there may be elections in Kosovo. The elections are set. An earlier compromise has occurred, and elections have been postponed once. They have been postponed at the international community's request. We have received the guarantee from them that they will not be postponed more than once”, he stated.

Konjufca has also declared that there is a clear “endence” to destabilise Kosovo's north before the 23 April elections, until she has called for calm to all citizens living in northern Kosovo.

Because even elections are approaching now, so after ten days it's the date of the elections, it's not random what's happening, since it's a clear tendency to destabilise that part of the country, ahead of the April 23rd” elections, has declared Conjufca for KP days ago.

Meanwhile, Minister of Internal Affairs Xhelal Svecla has said he is convinced that the election process in the north will end peacefully and successfully. He has added that institutions are continuing with the body of these elections.

For us, it is imperative that these choices be held in a quiet, secure atmosphere, both for organisers and for citizens there themselves. There are political decisions of specific subjects that they want or do not want to participate in the elections. But the important thing is that Kosovo institutions are continuing with the organisation of the election process, as it is best. I am convinced that this whole process will end peacefully, successful overcoming the problems I mentioned to”, Svechla has declared.

We remember that recent weeks there have been incidents in north-burning cars, assaulting police and wounding the Serb citizen where a police official is allegedly involved.

On the other side The CEC has approved the list with polling stations. Under the decision, the total number of polling stations in these four municipalities is 19 with a total of 34 seats, out of them 6 are regular polling stations with a total of 6 polling stations, while another 13 polling stations are alternative with a total of 28 seats.